page_title: Sornetan
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Sornetan / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Sornetan BE, Schweiz
context_page_description: Sornetan is a former municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura. On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Châtelat, Monible, Sornetan and Souboz merged to form the new municipality of Petit-Val.
context_section_description: Sornetan had a population (as of 2013) of 139.  As of 2010, 4.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (2001-2011) the population has changed at a rate of 2.4%.  Migration accounted for 0.8%, while births and deaths accounted for 0%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks French (99 or 87.6%) as their first language, German is the second most common (11 or 9.7%) and Spanish is the third (1 or 0.9%).
  As of 2008, the population was 53.2% male and 46.8% female.  The population was made up of 65 Swiss men (51.6% of the population) and 2 (1.6%) non-Swiss men.  There were 56 Swiss women (44.4%) and 3 (2.4%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality, 53 or about 46.9% were born in Sornetan and lived there in 2000.  There were 31 or 27.4% who were born in the same canton, while 19 or 16.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 9 or 8.0% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2011, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 23.3% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 67.4% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 9.3%.
  As of 2000, there were 51 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 55 married individuals, 5 widows or widowers and 2 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2010, there were 11 households that consist of only one person and  households with five or more people.  In 2000, a total of 36 apartments (65.5% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 13 apartments (23.6%) were seasonally occupied and 6 apartments (10.9%) were empty.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2012, was 1.61%.  In 2011, single family homes made up 43.8% of the total housing in the municipality.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Sornetan village
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